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 SIXTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 130. 1918. 809 laneous expenses are not spgciiically made, including purchase of profession and scientific oks, law books, books 0 reference, periodicals, blank_books, pamphlets, maps, newspapers (not exceeding $2,500); stationery; furniture and repairs to same; carpets, matting, oilcloth, iile cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges; fuel, lighting and heating; not exceeding $3,500 for the purchase of a motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle for official use of the Secretary of Commerce; purchase and exchange of motor trucks and bicycles; maintenance, repair, and operation of one motoripropelled passenger-carrying vehicle and of motor trucks and bicyc es, to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges; postage to foreign cormtries; telegaph an telephone service; thewr·iters, adding machines, and 0 er labor-saving devices, incluyding their repair and exchange; repairs to building occupied by offices of the Secretgiy of Commerce; first-aid outfits for use in the buildings occupi by empgoyees of this department; storage of documents belonging to the ureau of Lighthouses, not to exceed $1,500; streetcarl tickets, not exceeding $30%;  all tlotlger miscellaneous items an necessary expenses not incu e in e or, $70,000, an in addition thereto sums amounting} to $50,75‘0g(shm5l be deducted ,;,,‘§§i,,'i,w,~}'{’,‘l,,, *§,,l§§,?,§', from other appro riations made for the Hscal year nineteen hundred g,{r*g&g*Sv¤*{¤gg;¤§ and nineteen andp added to the appropriation "Contingent expenses, mam. UPN Department of Commerce," in order to facilitate the purchase V0, 36 P 53, through the central piuchasing office as provided in the Act of Jime ' ' seventeenth, nineteen hundre and ten (Statutes at Large, volume 'thirty-six, page Eve hundred and thirty-one), of certain supplies for bureaus and offices for which continglent and miscellaneous approriations are specifically made as fo ows: Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce——promoting commerce $6,000, promoting commerce (South and Central America) $3,000, commercial attachés $6,000, promoting commerce in the Far East $2,000; general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $10,000; contingent expenses, Steamboat- Inspection Service, $5,000; contingent expenses, shipping service, $500; instruments for measuring vessels, $500; instruments for coimting passengers, $250; enforcement of wireless communication laws, $1,000; Bureau of Standards—equipment $1,500, general expenses $2,000; general expenses, Coast an Geodetic Surve, $4,500; mis- T b cellaneous expenses, Bureau of Fisheries, $8,500; ang the said total turning: i>i$°1;i:¤d°$i sum of $120,750 shall be and constitute the appropriation for con- “¤PP` · tingent ex enses Department of Commerce, to expended through the central) purchasing office (Division of Supplies) Department of Commerce, and shall also be available for objects and purposes of the several a propriations mentioned under the title ‘ Contingent ex enses, Department of Commerce," in this Act. - l))uring the present war section thirty-seven hrmdred and nine of }_‘{'§‘fS'§,,"l`;§"$‘,,‘§,f°,§j7,_3_ the Revised Statutes of the United States shall not be construed to a ply to an purchase or service rendered for the Department of, Cgmmferce when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed the sum o $25. For rent of buildings in the District of Columbia, $66,500. R°""· For rent of storage space outside the Commerce Building, $2,000. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR. ¤·v¤¤¤¤¤¢¤¤L¤¤¤- , Assam, Omen or mm Sacnmrxnrz Secretary of Labor, $12 000; Assistant cliiiiiitgg Secretary, $5,000; chief clerk, $3,000; disbursing clerk, $3,000; private secretary to the Secretary, $2,500; clerk to the Secretary, $1,800; private secretary to the Assistant Secretary, $2,100; chief of division of publications and sup lies, $2,500; a pointment clerk, $2,100; assistant chief, division ofp publications ami) supplies, $2,000: librarian